Grain-elevator.



H. 0. KISE. GRAIN ELEVATOR. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 8, 1912.

Patented Feb. 17, 1914.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

HANS O. KISE, OF HANLEY FALLS, MINNESOTA.

GRAIN-ELEVATOR.

Application filed August a, 1912. Serial No. 713,987.

Zl all whom it may concern:

. '\Be it known that I, HANsO. KISE, a citi- Zen. of the United States, residing at Hanley sFallsj, in the county of Yellow Medicine and Elevators; and 'I' do State of; Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Grainlie-reby declare the following-to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. 7

My invention has for its objectto'provide an improved grain elevator and, to this end, it consists of the novel devices and combinations of. deviceshereinafter described and defined in,the, claim,

The invention 'is illustrated'dn the single view of the accompanying drawing, which is a view partly in side elevation and partly in central vertical section, some parts being broken away.

For the purpose of showing the improved grain elevator in working position, a portion of a granary has been illustrated in the drawing.

Of the pa'rts of the granary, the numeral 1 indicates a driveway therethrough having, at its intermediate portion, a pit 2, on each side 10f which is a plurality of bins, not shown. Within the pit 2 is mounted the improved grain elevator which is supported on a rectangular frame 4 having legs 5. On top of the frame 4 is secured an open bottom feed hopper 6 having its upper end substantially level with the driveway 1, in a position to receive grain dumped or shoveled from a wagon. A conveyer, preferably spiral, only the shaft 9 of which is shown, is pro,- vided for delivering grain from the hopper 6 to a fan casing .10 on the frame 4. VVithin the casing 10 is mounted a centrifugal fan, not shown, the shaft 13 of which is j ournaled in bearings, not shown, secured to the top of the frame 4. The conveys: shaft 9 is driven from the fan shaft 13 thrcsgl'i a countershaft 17 journaled in hearings on the frame 4 and'having s ured thereto sprocket wheels 21. Sprocket chains 18 and 19 run over the sprocket wheels 21 and also, respectively, over relatively small and large Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 17, 1914.

sprocket wheels 16 and 22, which. are secured, respectively, to the shafts 13 and 9. The conveyor shaft 9 is journaled in a bearing 23 secured to the frame 4. i

As the grain is delivered to the fan casing 10, the same is carried upward, with the blast of air from the fan, through a vertically extended stack 24. At its lower end, the stack 24 is s'wiveled on a base section 25 rigidly secured to the frame 4, which forms a continuation of said stack 24 directly to the delivery end of the fan casing 10. To the upper end of the stack 24 is rigidly secured a segmental hood 26 having swiveled to the lowest point thereof a delivery pipe 27 that terminates in a laterally bent delivery end. In each side of the hood 7 set.

What I claim is In a device of the kind described, the combination with a stack and a support therefor, of a hood mounted on theupper end 'of said stack and arranged to receive therefrom, said hood having a discharge opening located below the delivery end of said stack and being movably mounted with respect to" said support, to permit its discharge opening to be rotated around the axis of'said stack, and a dischar e pipe swiveled in the discharge opening 0 said hood and having tions in which the hood 26 and pipe 27 are a laterally extended discharge opening,vsubstantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HANS O. KISE. Witnesses:

OLE T. ANDERSON, 1 J. J. STEVENS.

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